The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 22 June 2022

Air Date: 
June 22, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915        
#Ukraine:# Poland aggressive on the European Plain highway to #Moscow; & What is to be done? - George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/on-the-road-again/
 
 

915-930        
#Ukraine: Small-power warfare in the 21st Century.  George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-evolution-of-great-powers/
 
 

930-945        
#Commodities. Gold holds value, crypto doesn't. Simon Constable, Barron's
https://www.barrons.com/articles/gold-prices-stocks-bonds-crypto-plunge-51655445600

Simon Constable,  Forbes Edinburgh; economist, journalist, currently based in Scotland; and author, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market.   
 

945-1000        
#Energy: Windfall folly. Bernard “Bud” Weinstein  @TheHill,  formerly at McGuire Energy Institute, Southern Methodist University; Goodenough College, London  
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3527261-bidens-proposed-windfall-profits-tax-will-make-america-less-energy-secure/
 
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015        
#Ukraine: The fight for Snake Island. #Ukraine.  Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslJ CBS News. @Dickinson College Diamondsix.com
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/22/ukraine-hits-snake-island-significant-blow-russias-black-sea/
 
 

1015-1030        
#NATO: Baltics arm and provoke. #Ukraine. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslJ CBS News. @Dickinson College Diamondsix.com
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/18/vladimir-putins-veiled-threat-ex-soviet-states-part-historic/
 
 

1030-1045        
1/2: #SCOTUS: Freedom of speech by Justice Robert Jackson, 1943. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution;  senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
https://www.hoover.org/research/can-artistic-freedom-survive-state-coercion

 

1045-1100        
2/2: #SCOTUS: Freedom of speech by Justice Robert Jackson, 1943. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution;  senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
https://www.hoover.org/research/can-artistic-freedom-survive-state-coercion

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115        
#PRC: TikTok the spy. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/china-accessed-data-us-tiktok-users-repeatedly-report.amp
 
 

1115-1130        
#PRC: Who's afraid of Musk? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
Brandon Weichert,  @WeTheBrandon, The Weichert Report and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas-beidaihe-district-bar-tesla-cars-driving-july-local-police-2022-06-20/
 
 

1130-1145        
#India: #PRC: India and the draft.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  Cleo Paskal,  FDD; associate Fellow at Chatham House; non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61836637
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-will-start-enrolment-under-new-military-recruitment-plan-this-month-2022-06-19/
Cleo Paskal  FDD, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
 

1145-1200        
#Taiwan:  Tempo picks up.  Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA , chair of the America First Policy Institute's new China Policy Initiative; former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4576156
 
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215        
#Ukraine: Banning oil exports; & What is to be done? Josh Rogin, @joshrogin   @WashingtonPost 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/22/restricting-oil-exports-betrayal-allies-help-russia-ukraine-war-energy/
 
 

1215-1230        
#Ukraine: #Russia: Falling behind for ten years. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/17/russian-economy-faces-10-years-of-recession-without-reforms-sberbank-ceo-a78031
 
 

1230-1245        
#Mars: Helicopter in the deep canyons of Mars. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/has-work-begun-on-a-dedicated-helicopter-mission-to-mars/
 
 

1245-100 AM         
#UAE:  Lunar Lander "Rashid"  from the UAE. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/uaes-rashid-lunar-rover-getting-ready-for-november-launch/

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